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My magazine will be distributed online through a website. There are two main ways to distribute magazines online: on a website or through an app. They both have benefits, but if you’re just starting, I would personally choose a website then switch over to an app when you have built a following. On-site magazines are the fastest way to get readers, and they bolster your website’s visits and time on page. Plus, it’s mutually beneficial between the magazine and the website. It’s also better to produce a digital magazine as we’re progressing in society and switching to more online platforms for items that use to be physical. I have barely seen anybody buy physical magazines in the stores anymore. Out with the old and in with the new.
My magazine concept deals with high school students and the stress of AP classes or any higher-level thinking classes, which places a large emphasis on tests, especially the tests at the end of the year. This detrimentally affects students’ mental health. Teachers will overload their students with work to “prepare them for the test” without taking into consideration if the material is actually helpful. Students already place a huge amount of pressure on themselves to do well in school, but the added pressure from their parents and teachers only does more damage than good. Teenagers also base their self-worth from on how well they do in school. Now in this pandemic, teachers are giving more work than before, overwhelming their students without any place for escape because their day starts and ends with school. With the overwhelming amount of work and fear of failure, students find unhealthy coping mechanisms to deal with their stress and face burnout from their large workload. They often procrastinate and use social media as their form of escape. Nobody ever talks about the real consequences of burnout and how school turns people into testing machines rather than a child trying to gain knowledge to help advance society. This topic needs to be discussed from the perspective of real teenagers and understood by adults either parents or teachers to understand the struggles faced by a burnout student. |